My collection is encoded with FLAC lossless, although I use MP3 lossy for "portable" applications. IMHO, the fact that lossy encoders work at all is a good indication that ones ears can be fooled; that they work as well as they do shows how much they can be fooled. That said, the listening experience is not static. As just about any recording engineer will tell you, one's ablility to hear and resolve audio changes due to any number of factors. Not to mention the fact that, over time, one's system will probably change as well as one's competance as a critical listener, so what is acceptable may change over time. For this reason, I feel that one might be making a decision they would later regret by using a lossy CODEC to encode their collection.
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